3c; 



EXTRACTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



(May 3rd— December 6th, 1911). 



Wednesday, May 3rd, 1911. 



Papers. 



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Commander Walker, one of the Secretaries, communicated 

 the following papers : — 



" Some African and a few Australian Aculeate Hymenoptera 

 in the Oxford Museum," by the late Col. Bingham, with a 

 prefatory note by Prof. Poulton ; communicated by Rowland 

 Turner. 



Wednesday, June 7th, 1911. 



Exhibitions. 



Barypithes pellucidus. — Commander J. J. Walker exhi- 

 bited specimens of Barypithes pellucidus, Boh., from Oxford, 

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Enfield, and Tavistock respectively, and for comparison, 

 B. duplicatus, Keys, from the Blean Woods and Birchington, 

 Kent. 



Mr. P. B. Jennings remarked that he took B. pellucidus 

 on buttercups and inquired whether any were present where 

 these specimens were taken. Commander Walker replied 

 that there were no flowers at all, only short grass, in the 

 locality where his Oxford specimens were taken, 

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Hemipterous Mimics of Hymenoptera. — Prof. Poulton 

 exhibited on behalf of Mr. A. H. Hamm, assistant in the 

 Hope Dept. of the Oxford University Museum, a case of 



